ELECTORAL ACT ____________________________________________________________________________________ (ii) the designated magistrate shall appoint a day and place for the hearing, the day so appointed being not more than thirty days after the date of lodging of the objection. (4) The voter registration officer shall— (a) give written notice to the person lodging the objection and to the person to whom the objection relates of the day and place appointed for the hearing; and (b) send with such notice to the person to whom the objection relates a copy of the objection, setting forth the grounds thereof. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (5) Notwithstanding anything in this section, if the voter registration officer receives an objection in terms of subsection (1) during the period of thirty days immediately prior to the polling day or first polling day, as the case may be, fixed for an election in the constituency in which the person to whom the objection relates is registered, he or she shall take no action on such objection until after the close of the polling day or last polling day, as the case may be. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (6) A voter who has objected in terms of this section may, at any time after the objection is set down for hearing in terms of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subsection (3), withdraw the objection on written notice to the voter registration officer and the voter registration officer shall notify the person to whom the objection relates and the designated magistrate of such withdrawal, and no further proceedings shall be taken in relation to that objection. [Subsection amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 29 Hearing and determination of objections by designated magistrate (1) On the hearing of an objection in terms of section twenty-seven or twenty-eight by a designated magistrate the following provisions shall apply— (a) the objector may appear either in person or by an agent appointed in writing under his or her hand; (b) the person to whom the objection relates may— (i) appear either in person or by an agent appointed in writing under his or her hand; or (ii) forward by post addressed to the designated magistrate a statement in writing, signed by him or her and witnessed by another voter of the same constituency, setting forth the reasons for his or her claim or for remaining on the voters roll, as the case may be; (c) if objector does not appear as provided in paragraph (a), the designated magistrate shall disallow the objection unless the person to whom the objection relates has, in writing, admitted the validity of the objection; (d) if the person to whom the objection relates has, in writing, admitted the validity of the objection, the designated magistrate shall direct the voter registration officer— (i) in the case of a claim for registration as a voter, to reject the claim or to register the voter on the correct voters roll; (ii) in the case of an objection to a registered voter, to strike his or her name off the voters roll or to place it on the correct voters roll; [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] (e) if the objector appears as provided in paragraph (a), the designated magistrate shall hear and determine the objection and may direct the voter registration officer— (i) in the case of a claim, to register the claimant or reject the claim; or (ii) in the case of an objection to a registered voter, to retain his or her name on the voters roll, to place it on the correct voters roll or to strike it off the voters roll; as he or she may think fit; [Paragraph amended by Second Schedule to Act No. 3 of 2016] 40